Surface Chief Panos Panay Is Taking Over Engineering For All Of Premium Devices Including Lumia Windows Phones

As you all know, Stephen Elop who was leading the Devices unit at Microsoft has left the company. Recently, Microsoft combined their Devices division with Windows division headed by Terry Myerson. Today, ZDNet reported that Surface chief Panos Panay is expanding his role inside Microsoft’s Windows division. He is now the head of engineering of all of Microsoft’s premium devices including Lumia Windows Phone devices. Apart from Lumia and Surface lineup, other Microsoft hardware which comes under his leadership include Xbox, Surface Hub, HoloLens and Microsoft Band. Panos Panay is a great leader and under his leadership Surface is now a growing billion dollar business for Microsoft.